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SStii Congress, \ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 

\st Session. 



( Report 
I No. 328. 



ZZ.S.6-7-.^ 



ALLEN SMITH. 

[To accompany Bill H. R. No. 534.] 



April 17, 1858. 



Mr. Case, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made the 

following 

PORT. 

Ihe Committee on Invalid Pensions, to ivJwm loere referred the petition 
and accompanying papers of Allen Smith, make the following report: 

That it appears from the affidavit of the petitioner, (and his state- 
ment is corroborated by the certificate of the Adjutant General,) that 
he enlisted into the company of Captain Weeks, 11th regiment of 
United States infantry, on the 20th of May, 1812, for five years, and 
served the full period of his enlistment, and was honorably discharged. 

It further appears from his statement that he was transferred to 
the recruiting service, being a drummer, and was ordered from place 
to place ; that whilst stationed at Plattsburgh, New York, lie had an 
attack of measles, and before he had entirely recovered, was ordered 
to Champlain, in the same State, and whilst there, and in feeble 
health, he was obliged to encamp in the woods, without covering, ex- 
posed to the cold, wet and snow, which produced sickness, and from 
the eifects of which he has never recovered, but, on the contrary, he 
has grown worse, until he is now wholly incapable of supporting 
himself, and that his i)resent disabled condition is owing to disease 
contracted whihst in tlie discharge of liis duty as a soldier. Two or 
three respectable physicians lully confirm his statement as regards 
his present disability, and give it as their opinion that it is in conse- 
quence of exposure to the inclemency of the weather. It also appears 
from the affidavit of the officer Avho enlisted the petitioner, ((xould,) 
and who served with him during the whole five years, and also by 
that of Lieutenant Stephenson, who also served with him, that he 
(the petitioner) was, at the time of entering the service, a strong, 
able bodied man, and tliat his jtresent disability is the result of an 
incurable disease, contracted whilst in the army and in the discharge 
of his duty. 

In view of the foregoing facts, and in consequence of the valuable 
service of the petitioner, your committee report a bill for liis relief, 
and recommend its passage. 



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